This post was done as a joint endeavor with the inimitable and beloved MizFit as our tribute to gratitude. It seems like sometimes we fit bloggers get a bit obsessive about our bodies. (That would be the understatement of the year except that “Michael Jackson is a bit off” wins every time.) We tweak what …
Skinny people die young. Compared to overweight people, that is. Contradicting what I, and many of you, have come to feel is common sense, this study says that people in the “overweight” category of the BMI scale live longer, healthier lives than their “normal” counterparts with people in the “underweight” and “obese” categories having the …
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Now you and your significant other have one more thing to bond over whilst roasting chestnuts over your faux fire and wearing matching Burberry slippers this season: new research has found that seeing pictures of beautiful models actually make the men folk feel badly about themselves, just like it does to us women! Porn purveyors …
At first glance, a new study about kids’ television viewing habits seems rather encouraging. A group of 1,055 3-12 year-olds was shown three different pictures of a popular female cartoon character, Bibi Blocksburg (the apparent love-child of Mickey Mouse in his Sorcerer’s Apprentice days and Caillou the inexplicably bald-headed Canadian preschooler): The pictures were set …
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Most people have a hard time getting to the gym. I have a hard time getting out of the gym. My love of everything fitness has become my defining personality trait. That is often what people know me for. It doesn’t help either that my hobbies include reading about fitness, writing about fitness and talking …
My friend L and I have been best friends since elementary school. We thought we were two halves of the same person and campaigned relentlessly to our parents to never, ever separate us. After all, a multitude of friendship bracelets, twin My Child dolls, and even an actual padlock hooking us together couldn’t be wrong! …
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Aww! I miss the ’80s! Who doesn’t love a furry loin cloth that requires a bikini wax to wear??It finally happened: I got the “you look too muscular” comment from another woman in the gym. Gym Buddy Allison and I were minding our own business, finishing up our second set of 10 reps of 135-lb …
Katie Green has a spectacular rack. Everyone agrees. At least enough people voted her – and her 30F’s (no that’s not a typo – can you imagine?) – to be the winner of Wonderbra’s “Real Women” campaign. At first Green was “completely bowled over” by the news that she had been picked by her British …
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Good people give bad advice all the time. And said advice generally comes in well-intended pithy (and occasionally alliterative!) axioms. The rule of thumb for discerning bad advice: does it fit on a bumper sticker? If yes, then it is too simple to be of much use. Funny? Sure! Worth honking for? Why not! Helpful? …
Here’s something you don’t see very often in our Photoshopped, airburshed and Dermablended world: stretch marks. And not just a couple discreetly tucked away on a hip or breast. Oh no, these are full-on I’ve birthed a baby and no amount of Mederma will ever fix them stretch marks. A woman named Deelishis from, unsurprisingly, …
